How to Keep Going in Your Biz when you want to Shrink Back and Shut Down | Episode 15
She's Equipt with Jennifer Allwood | The Christian Business Coach for Women
Jennifer Allwood: Christian Business Coach
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Feeling like you want to shrink back and shut down is normal! Entrepreneurship comes with its ups and downs, but that is no reason to give up. Tune in to find out my top 4 reasons WHY you'll get this feeling and solutions to get through it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, hey, this is Jennifer Allwood, and this is the Jennifer Allwood show where we talk about creating a beautiful home and building a creative business. Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jennifer Allwood Show. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm so super excited that you are here with me again this week. |
| 0:22.3 | Thank you for tuning back in and I hope that what I'm about to speak on today |
| 0:26.0 | will encourage you in whatever stage that you are in in your business |
| 0:31.0 | because this is a really important topic okay so we're going to |
| 0:34.7 | talk today about why business owners and in particular female creative business owners have a tendency to both shrink back and shut down |
| 0:46.1 | at different stages in their business. Okay so let me give you just a tiny little |
| 0:50.7 | like overview of most creative people all right most of us are tender all right most of us creative people are feelers we get our feelings easily hurt |
| 1:01.5 | where sometimes we have to make sure that we don't get easily offended. |
| 1:05.1 | We are people pleasers the majority of the time. The reason we're people pleasers |
| 1:09.4 | is because when you're a maker, all right, when you're a maker and you're putting your stuff out for the world and |
| 1:14.3 | hoping that they're gonna purchase it. You're trying to please your clients. |
| 1:19.5 | So it's impossible not to be a people pleaser almost and a really serious creative person at the at the same time and so a lot of us creatives are introverts maybe you guys have heard my podcast on being an introvert and so and so for all of those reasons we have a tendency when some |
| 1:36.3 | things come up in our business to shrink back and to shut down and I want to |
| 1:40.2 | talk to you about some of those things today okay, so let's talk about what shrinking back looks like, |
| 1:45.2 | all right? |
| 1:46.2 | Because you're maybe like, I don't shrink back, |
| 1:47.0 | I don't know what you're talking about. |
| 1:48.1 | But it's funny, I was using this visual |
| 1:50.3 | with the women that I teach in my coaching group the other day and I was talking about shrinking back like almost like when you see a puppy |
| 1:57.0 | That's been swatted too much by someone who hasn't taken good care of their animal and so so, you know how the puppy just gets like head shy? |
| 2:05.7 | And they just get to where they like shrink back |
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